Bibliography of Scottish Literature
Eighteenth Century Scottish Literature
Introductory Reading
The general literary histories and bibliographies are useful first ports of call, see particularly W.R. Aitken, Daiches, Glen, Kinsley, Lindsay, Millar, Royle, Speirs, Walker, Watson, Wittig, Hewitt and Spiller. Andrew Hook's edition of The History of Scottish Literature Vol. II, 1660-1800 (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989) is recommended for the range of its essays, which outline in depth many writers and related themes concerning this period. Also recommended is Kenneth Simpson's The Protean Scot: The Crisis of Identity in Eighteenth Century Scottish Literature (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988) which examines eighteenth century Scottish literature in relation to writers including Burns, Boswell, Smollett and Mackenzie; Robert Crawford's Devolving English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; second edition 2001) is also useful for his discussion of Scottish writers and their relationship with 'British' and English literature. A stimulating recent coverage of the period is in chapters 1-4 of Marshall Walker's Scottish Literature Since 1707 (London and New York: Longman, 1996). Older works which provide a useful introduction to this period are David Craig's controversial but stimulating Scottish Literature and the Scottish People, 1680-1830 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1961); David Daiches's pioneering The Paradox of Scottish Culture: The Eighteenth Century Experience (London: Oxford University Press, 1964) and his wide-ranging study, Robert Burns (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1952; revised, London: Deutsch, 1966) remain lucid and readable introductions to the period, as do John MacQueen's The Enlightenment and Scottish Literature Vol. I: Progress and Poetry (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982) and Thomas Crawford's Society and the Lyric: A Study of the Song Culture of Eighteenth Century Scotland (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1979). Readers wishing to sample a cross-section of longer Scottish poems of the period should go to Longer Scottish Poems: Volume Two, edited by Thomas Crawford, David Hewitt, and Alexander Law (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987). Harold Thompson's A Scottish Man of Feeling; Henry Mackenzie and the Golden age of Burns and Scott (London: Oxford University Press, 1931), while dated, is rich in information. See also relevant essays in A History of Scottish Womens' Writing edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).
For cultural background, Alexander Broadie's The Scottish Enlightenment: An Anthology (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1997) is a superb representative selection from all the major thinkers and strands of philosophy; see also Anand Chitnis's The Scottish Enlightenment: A Social History (London: Croom Helm, 1976), George Davie's The Scottish Enlightenment and other essays and A Passion for Ideas: Essays on the Scottish Enlightenment (both Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991, 1994), Jane Rendall's The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment 1707-1776 (London: Macmillan, 1978) and Richard Sher's Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: the Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985).
For historical background,a stimulating and popular yet reliable introduction is in Scotland Since 1688: Struggle for a Nation edited by Edward Cowan and Richard Finlay (London: Cima Books, 2000); while the most ambitious histories in recent years are T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: 1700-2000 (London: Allen Lane, 1999) and Michael Lynch's Scotland: A New History (London: Century, 1991). Older but excellent is William Ferguson's Scotland: 1689 to the Present (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1968); also Henry Meikle's Scotland and the French Revolution (Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1912); Rosalind Mitchison's Lordship to Patronage (London: Arnold, 1983); N.T. Phillipson and Rosalind Mitchison's Scotland in the Age of Improvement (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970; 1996); Colin Kidd's British identities before nationalism: ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic world, 1600-1800(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Subverting Scotland's past: Scottish Whig historians and the creation of an Anglo-British identity, 1689-c.1830(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), and the pioneering work of T.C. Smout in A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 (London: Collins, 1969). For a nationalist view, see Paul Scott's The Union of Scotland and England (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1978).
Enlightenment and Vernacular
Reading for this period includes a wider than usual range of material such as primary works of philosophy, aesthetics and literature, from writers such as Francis Hutcheson to David Hume, and from Dr Johnson to his biographer James Boswell. A selection of these primary texts will be found in 'Widening the Range' at the end of this section reading list. What follows now is contemporary critical material on the period.
The Philosophy and Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment
Allan, David, Virtue, Learning and The Scottish Enlightenment, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).
Beveridge, Craig and Turnbull, Ronald, The Eclipse of Scottish Culture (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1989), [see chapter 6, 'Philosophical Education'].
Bryson, Gladys, Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945).
Buckle, Henry Thomas, On Scotland and the Scotch Intellect, ed. H. J. Hanham, (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970), [see chapter 5, 'An Examination of the Scotch Intellect during the Eighteenth Century].
Camic, C., Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Campbell, R.H. and Skinner, A.S. (eds.), The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982).
Carruthers, Gerard, 'Culture, 1707-1850', Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present, eds. A. Cooke et.al., (East Linton: Tuckwell & Open University Press, 1998), pp. 253-74.
Clark, H.C., 'Women and Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought: The Case of Adam Smith', Historical Reflections - Reflections Historique 19 (1993), pp. 363-87.
Daiches, David, The Scottish Enlightenment: an introduction (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1986).The Paradox of Scottish Culture: The Eighteenth Century Experience (London: Oxford University Press, 1964).
Jones, Jean and Jones, Peter (eds.), The Scottish Enlightenment, 1730-1790: a hotbed of genius (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1996).
Davie, George F., The Democratic Intellect (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1961).
'The Social Significance of the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense', The Dow Lecture (Dundee: University of Dundee, 1972).
Davis, Leith, Acts of Union: Scotland and the literary negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1832 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998).
Dwyer, John, Virtuous Discourse (Edinburgh: J. Donald, 1987). The Age of the passions : an interpretation of Adam Smith and Scottish enlightenment culture (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1998).
Sher, Richard (eds.), Sociability and society in eighteenth-century Scotland (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1993).
Graham, H.G., The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century (London: A.&C. Black, 1899).
Hazard, Paul, European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing (London: Hollis & Carter, 1954).
Hook, A.D., Scotland and America 1750-1835 (Glasgow: Blackie, 1975). Sher, Richard, The Glasgow Enlightenment (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1997).
Kidd, Colin, Subverting Scotland's past: Scottish whig historians and the creation of an Anglo-British identity, 1689-c.1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).British identities before nationalism: ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic world, 1600-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
McCosh, James, Scottish Philosophy (London: Macmillan, 1875).
McElroy, D.D., Scotland's Age of Improvement: A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literary Clubs and Societies (Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 1969).
McMillan, Dorothy, The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad: Non-Fictional Writing 1700-1900 (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999).
McQueen, John, Progress and Poetry (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982). The Rise of The Historical Novel (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1989).
Mann, Alistair J., The Scottish Book Trade 1500-1720 (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000).
Mitchison, Rosalind and Phillipson, N.T. (eds.), Scotland in the Age of Improvement (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970).
Pittock, Murray G.H., Poetry and Jacobite politics in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland 1685-1789 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997). Celtic identity and the British image (Manchester: Manchester University Press,1999).
Robinson, Daniel Sommer, The Story of Scottish Philosophy (New York: Exposition Press, 1961), [contains extracts from Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid, highlighting their main ideas].
Sher, Richard, Church and university in the Scottish Enlightenment : the moderate literati of Edinburgh (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1985).
Thomson, Derick S., Gaelic Poetry in the eighteenth century: a bilingual anthology (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1993).
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 'The Scottish Enlightenment', Studies on Voltaire 58 (Genève: Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1967), pp. 1635-58.
Young, Douglas, 'Scotland and Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century', Studies on Voltaire 58 (Genève: Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1967), pp. 1967-90.
Literary Criticism
Butt, John, 'The Revival of Scottish Vernacular Poetry in the Eighteenth Century', From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays presented to Frederick A. Pottle, eds. F.W. Hilles and Harold Bloom, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 219-37.
Carruthers, Gerard and Dunnigan, Sarah, "A reconfused chaos now': Scottish Poetry and Nation from the Medieval Period to the Eighteenth Century', Edinburgh Review 100 (Edinburgh, 1999), pp. 81-94.
Crawford, Thomas, Hewitt, David and Law, Alexander (eds.), Longer Scottish Poems, volume 2 (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987).
Daiches, David, 'Eighteenth Century Vernacular Poetry', Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey, ed. James Kinsley, (London: Cassell & Co., 1955), pp. 150-84. Literature and Gentility (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982).
Donaldson, William, The Jacobite Song: Political Myth and National Identity (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).
Graham, H.G., Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century (London: A.&C. Black, 1901).
Hook, Andrew, 'Scotland and Romanticism: The International Scene', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. II, 1660-1800, ed. A.D. Hook, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 307-22.
Leonard, Tom (ed.), Radical Renfrew: poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War by poets born, or sometime resident in, the County of Renfrewshire (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990).
MacLaine, Allan H., The Christis Kirk Tradition: Scots Poems of Folk Festivity (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1996).
Millar, J.H., 'Literary Revival in Scotland after the Union', The Union of 1707: A Survey of events by various writers (Glasgow: Outram, 1907), pp. 134-42.
Noble, Andrew, 'Versions of Scottish Pastoral: The Literati and the Tradition (1780-1830)', Order and Space in Society: Architectural Form and its Context in the Scottish Enlightement, ed. Thomas Markus, (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1982).
Ross, Ian, 'Aesthetic Philosophy: Hutcheson and Hume to Alison', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. II, 1660-1800, ed. A.D. Hook, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 239-58.
Sher, Richard, 'Literature and the Church of Scotland', ibid., pp. 259-72.
Stafford, Fiona, The Sublime Savage: James MacPherson and the Poems of Ossian (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988).
Trumpener, Katie, Bardic Nationalism (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Turnbull, Gordon, 'James Boswell: Biography and the Union', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. II, 1660-1800, ed. A.D. Hook, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 157-74.
Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson and the Vernacular Tradition
Allan Ramsay
Editions
Burns, Martin, Law, Alexander and Kinghorn, Alexander M. (eds.), Works,6 Vols., (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1951-74).
Freeman, F.W., and Law, Alexander (eds.), 'Allan Ramsay's First Published Poem: the Poem to the Memory of Dr Archibald Pitcairne', The Bibliotheck 9:7 (1979), pp. 153-60.
Kinghorn, Alexander M. and Law, Alexander (eds.), Poems by Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974; new edition 1985).
Wood, Henry Harvey (ed.), Poems: epistles, fables, satires, elegies & lyrics (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1940).
Criticism and Biography
Burns, Martin, Allan Ramsay: A Study of his Life and Works (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931).
Crawford, Thomas, 'The Vernacular Revival and the Poetic Thrill: a Hedonistic Approach', Scotland and the Lowland Tongue, ed. J. Derrick McClure, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 79-99.
Freeman, F.W., 'The Intellectual Background of the Vernacular Revival before Burns', SSL 16 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1981), pp. 168-87.
Gibson, Andrew, New Light on Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh: W. Brown, 1927).
Kinghorn, Alexander M., and Law, Alexander, 'Allan Ramsay and Literary Life in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century', The History of Scottish Literature Vol.II, 1660-1800, ed. A.D. Hook, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 65-80.
McGuirk, Carol, 'Augustan Influences on Allan Ramsay', SS\ 16 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1981), pp. 97-109.
MacKay, James A., 'The Hitherto Unrecorded Letters of Allan Ramsay', SSL 24 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1989), pp. 1-6.
MacLaine, Allan H., Allan Ramsay (New York: Twayne, 1985).
Speirs, John, 'Allan Ramsay's Scots Poems', The Scots Literary Tradition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940; revised edition, Faber, 1962).'A Bibliography of the Writings of Allan Ramsay', Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society 10 (Glasgow, 1931), pp. 1-114.
Zenzinger, Peter, My Muse is British: Allan Ramsay (Grossen-Linden: Hoffman, 1977).
Robert Fergusson
Editions
Dickins, Bruce (ed.), Scots Poems (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1925).
Kinghorn, Alexander M., and Law, Alexander (eds.), Poems by Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1974; new edition, 1985).
Law, Alexander (ed.), Scots Poems (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1947).
McDiarmid, Matthew P. (ed.), Poems, 2 vols., (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1954-56).
Telfer, John (ed.), Scots Poems (Edinburgh: Scottish Features, 1948). (ed.), Works of Robert Fergusson [1807] (Edinburgh: James Thin, 1970).
Criticism and Biography
Daiches, David, Robert Fergusson (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982).
Fairley, John A., 'Bibliography of Robert Fergusson', Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society 3 (Glasgow, 1915), pp. 115-55.
Freeman, F.W., Robert Fergusson and the Scots Humanist Compromise (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984). 'Robert Fergusson: Pastoral and Politics at Mid-Century', The History of Scottish iterature Vol. II, 1660-1800, ed. A.D. Hook, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 141-56.
Garioch, Robert and Smith, Anne, Fergusson: A Bicentenary Handsel (Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1974).
McDiarmid, Matthew P., 'Introduction' to Scottish Text Society Edition, [see above].
MacLaine, Allan H., Robert Fergusson (New York: Twayne, 1965).
Morgan, Edwin, 'Robert Fergusson', Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature (Manchester: Carcanet, 1990), pp, 75-91.
Smith, Sydney Goodsir (ed.), Robert Fergusson, 1750-1774: Essays by Various Hands to Commemorate the Bi-centenary of his Birth (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1952).
Speirs, John, 'Robert Fergusson', The Scots Literary Tradition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940; revised edition, Faber, 1962), pp. 110-6, [1962 edition].'Tradition and Robert Fergusson', ibid., pp. 198-206, [1962 edition].
Robert Burns
Editions
Ewing, James Cameron and Cook, Davidson (eds.), Robert Burns' Commonplace Book, 1783-1785 (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1938; reproduced with introduction by David Daiches, London: Centaur Press, 1965).
Ferguson, J. De Lancey and Roy, G. Ross, The Letters of Robert Burns, 2 vols., (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, 2nd edition).
Kinsley, James (ed.), Poems and Songs, 3 vols., (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968).
O'Rourke, Donny (ed.), Ae Fond Kiss: the Love Letters of Robert Burns and Clarinda (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2000).
Roy, G. Ross (intro.), The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799; Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1999).
The Mitchell Library in Glasgow holds one of the finest collections of Burns material available; see the Catalogue of the Robert Burns Collection; The Mitchell Library, Glasgow (Glasgow: Glasgow City Libraries and Archives, 1996).
Criticism and Biography
Bentman, Raymond, 'Robert Burns's use of Scottish Diction', From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, eds. Frederick W. Hilles and Harold Bloom, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 239-58. 'Robert Burns's Declining Fame', Studies in Romanticism 2 (Boston: University of Boston, 1972), pp. 207-24.
Bittenbender, J.C., 'Bakhtinian Carnival in the Poetry of Robert Burns', SLJ 21 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1994), pp. 23-38.
Brown, Mary Ellen, Burns and Tradition (London: Macmillan, 1984).
Carruthers, Gerard and Dunnigan, Sarah, 'Two Tales of 'Tam o' Shanter'', Southfields 6.2 (London: Southfields Press, 2000), pp. 36-43.
Carswell, Catherine, The Life of Robert Burns (London: Chatto & Windus, 1930; reproduced, Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990).
Catalogue of the Robert Burns Collection in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow (Glasgow: Mitchell Library, 1959).
Crawford, Robert (ed.), Robert Burns and Cultural Authority (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).
Crawford, Thomas, Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs (London: Macmillan, 1960; reproduced, Edinburgh: Canongate Academic, 1994). 'Burns since 1970', SLJ suppl. 3 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1976), pp. 4-14. Boswell, Burns and the French Revolution (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1994). Robert Burns and his World (London: Thames & Houston, 1971). Robert Burns the Poet (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1994).
Daiches, David, Robert Burns (London, Deutsch, 1950, rev., 1966).
Damrosch, Leopold, 'Burns, Blake and the Recovery of Lyric', Studies in Romanticism 21 (Boston: University of Boston, 1982), pp. 637-60.
Davis, L.A., 'Bounded in a District Space: Burns, Wordsworth and the Margins of English Literature', English Studies in Canada 20 (1994), pp. 23-40.
Egerer, Joel Warren, A Bibliography of Robert Burns (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1964).
Ferguson, J. De Lancey, Pride and Passion: Robert Burns (New York: Oxford University Press, 1939).
Hecht, Hans, Robert Burns: The Man and his Work, trans. Jane Lymbum, (Edinburgh: Hodge, 1936; 2nd edition, 1950).
Jack, R.D.S. and Noble, Andrew (eds.), The Art of Robert Burns (London: Vision Press, 1982).
Lindsay, Maurice, Robert Burns: The Man, His Work, The Legend (London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1954; revised edition, London: Robert Hale, 1979). The Burns Encyclopedia (London: Robert Hale, 1980, 3rd edition).
Low, Donald A. (ed.), Robert Burns: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974). (ed.), Robert Burns: Critical Essays (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975). Robert Burns (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, Scottish Writers Series, 1986).
McGuirk, Carol (ed.), Critical Essays on Robert Burns (New York: G.K. Hall, 1998). Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1985).'Scottish Hero, Scottish Victim: Myths of Robert Burns', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. II, 1660-1800, ed. A.D. Hook, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 219-38.
McIntyre, Ian, Dirt and Deity: A Life of Robert Burns (London: Harper Collins, 1995).
Mackay, James, Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1992).
MacLaine, Allan H., 'Radicalism and Conservatism in Burns's The Jolly Beggars', SSL 13 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1978), pp. 125-43.
Roy, G. Ross (ed.), SSL 30 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1998)
Simpson, Kenneth G., 'The Many Voices: The Poetry of Robert Burns', The Protean Scot (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988). (ed.), Burns Now (Edinburgh: Canongate Academic, 1994). Robert Burns (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Scotnotes, 1994). Love and Liberty: Robert Burns, A Bicentenary Celebration (East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 1997). Songs of Robert Burns, sung by Ewan McColl, (New York: Folkways [FW8758], 1959). The Songs of Robert Burns, sung by Jean Redpath, (Vermont: Philo, 1976).
Speirs, John, 'Burns', The Scots Literary Tradition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940; revised, Faber, 1962), pp. 117-30, [1962 edition].
Strawhorn, John (ed.), Ayrshire in the Time of Robert Burns (Ayr: Ayrshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society, 1959).
Thornton, Robert D., James Currie, the Entire Stranger and Robert Burns (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963). William Maxwell to Robert Burns (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1979).
Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Editions
Bouce, Paul Gabriel (ed.), The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom [1753] (London: Penguin, 1990).
Bouce, Paul Gabriel (ed.), The Adventures of Roderick Random [1748] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
Clifford, James L. (ed.), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle [1751] (London: Oxford University Press, 1964).
Felsenstein, Frank (ed.), Travels Through France and Italy [1766] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, World's Classics Series, 1981).
Knapp, Lewis (ed.), Letters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Preston, Tom (ed.), Humphry Clinker, with an introduction and notes, (Athens, Ga; London: University of Georgia Press, 1990).
Ross, Angus (ed.), Humphry Clinker [1771] (London: Penguin, 1985).
Wagner, Peter (ed.), The Life and Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves [1762] (London: Penguin, 1988).
Criticism and Biography
Basker, James G., Tobias Smollett: Critic and Journalist (Newark and London: University of Delaware Press, 1988).
Bold, Alan (ed.), Tobias Smollett: Author of the First Distinction (London: Vision, 1982).
Bouce, Paul Gabriel, The Novels of Tobias Smollett, trans. Antonia White, (London: Longman, 1976).
Giddings, Robert, The Tradition of Smollett (London: Methuen, 1967). Tobias Smollett (London: Greenwich Exchange, 1995).
Goldberg, M.A., Smollett and the Scottish School (Alberquerque: New Mexico University Press, 1959).
Grant, Damien, Tobias Smollett: A Study in Style (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977).
Kelly, L. (ed.), Tobias Smollett: The Critical Heritage (London and New York: Routledge, 1987).
Knapp, Lewis M., Tobias Smollett, Doctor of Men and Manners (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1949).
MacQueen, John, The Enlightenment and Scottish Literature, Vol. I: Progress and Poetry (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982), [chapters iii and v].
Martz, Louis L., The Later Career of Tobias Smollett (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Oxford University Press, 1942; revised, Hamden Conn.: Archon Books, 1967).
Rothstein, Eric, Systems of Order and Inquiry in Later Eighteenth Century Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).
Rousseau, G.S., Tobias Smollett: Essays of Two Decades (Edinburgh: T.&J. Clark, 1982).
Rousseau, G.S. and Bouce, Paul Gabriel (eds.), Tobias Smollett; Bicentennial Essays presented to Lewis M. Knapp (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Simpson, Kenneth G., 'The Scot as Novelist: Tobias Smollett', The Protean Scot: The Crisis of Identity in the Eighteenth Century (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).
Spector, Robert D., Tobias George Smollett (New York: Twayne, 1968; updated edition, Boston: Twayne, 1989). Smollett's Women: A Study of Eighteenth Century Masculine Sensibility (Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994).
Warner, John M., Joyce's Grandfathers: Myth and History in Defoe, Smollett, Sterne, and Joyce (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1993).
Widening the Range
The following references are selective, providing preliminary information on writers mentioned in the main text. In this section primary and critical works are listed together. The list works in alphabetical order of eighteenth-century author, with criticism. For information on further writers of the period such as William Hamilton of Bangour or Alexander Wilson see the website bibliographies; for women writers of the period see relevant articles in Gifford, Douglas and McMillan, Dorothy (eds.), A History of Scottish Women's Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).
Samuel Arnot
Arnot, Samuel, 'Eternity: A Poem', The Gardyne Collection Vol. 206 (held by The Mitchell Library, Glasgow).
Lady Grizell Baillie
Baillie, G., Recollections of a happy life begun on earth, made perfect in heaven (her brother Major Robert Baillie, of Earlston) (Edinburgh: R&R Clark, 1890, 2nd edition).
James Beattie
Beattie, James and Blair, Robert, The Poetical Works of Gray, Beattie, Blair, Collins,Thomson and Kirke White (London: Blackwood & Co., n.d; New York: G. Routledge & sons, 1800).
King, Everard H., James Beattie (Boston: Twayne, 1977).
Walker, Ralph S., James Beattie's London Diary, 1735 (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1946).
Robert Blair
Blair, Robert, The Grave: a poem with introduction by James A. Means (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1973) The Grave: A Poem, with Gray's celebrated elegy in a country Church-yard, (Glasgow: Hutcheson, 1800). The Grave: A Poem, illustrated by 12 etchings (executed by Louis Schiavonetti, from the original inventions of William Blake), (London, 1808).
Thomas Blacklock
Blacklock, Thomas, Poems, ed. Henry Mackenzie, (Edinburgh, 1793).
James Boswell
Boswell, James, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, ed. Peter Levi, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984). The Life of Samuel Johnson, 5 Vols., eds. G.B. Hill and L.F. Powell, (London, 1964), [Vol. V has Tour to the Hebrides].
Clingham, G. (ed), New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Crawford, Thomas, Boswell, Burns and the French Revolution (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1990).
Crawford, Thomas (ed.), Boswell in Scotland and Beyond (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997).
Martin, Peter, A Life of James Boswell (London: Weidenfled & Nicholson, 1999).
See also Frederick Pottle's James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769 (London: Heinemann, 1966) and the Yale series of Boswell journals from Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763, ed. Frederick Pottle,(London, 1951)to Boswell: The Great Biographer 1789-1795, eds. Marlies Danziger and Frank Brady, (London: Heinemann, 1989), comprising thirteen volumes; and the Yale Research edition of the Letters, in seven volumes.
Alexander Carlyle
Carlyle, Alexander, The autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk, 1722- 1805, ed. J.H. Burton, (Edinburgh, 1860).
James Craigs
Craigs, James, Spiritual Life: Poems on Several Divine Subjects (Edinburgh: Lumisden & Co., 1727; held by The Mitchell Library, Glasgow).
William Falconer
Falconer, William, The Shipwreck: a poem, [with notes and a sketch of his life], (London, 1803; 1808; 1811; 1825).
Adam Ferguson
Ferguson, Adam, Institutes of Moral Philosophy (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994).
Merolle, Vincenzo (ed.), The correspondence of Adam Ferguson (London: William Pickering, 1995).
Oz-Salzberger, Fania (ed.), An essay on the history of civil society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
Daiches, D. (ed.), Selected political writings and speeches [of] Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1979).
Alexander Geddes
Carruthers, Gerard, 'Alexander Geddes and the Burns "Lost Poems" Controversy', SSL XXXI (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1999), pp. 81-5.
Geddes, A., An Apology for Slavery (James Johnson, 1792). Carmen Saeculare alterum, pro anno liberatus quatro (James Johnson,1792). 'Three Scottish Poems, with a Previous Dissertation on the Scoto-Saxon Dialect', Transactions of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries (Aberdeen, 1792).
William Hamilton of Gilbertfield
Glen D. (ed.), Familiar Epistles between William Hamilton of Gilbertfield in Cambuslang and Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh (Kirkcaldy: Akros Press, 2000).
Hamilton, W., Blind Harry's Wallace (1722; Edinburgh: Luath Press, 1998).
John Home
Home, John, Agis: a tragedy (London: A. Millar, 1758 and Dublin: G.&A. Ewing et. al., 1758). Alonzo: A Tragedy in Five Acts (London: T. Becket, 1773). Douglas: A Tragedy (London: A. Millar, 1757 and Edinburgh: George Reid, 1798). Douglas, ed. Gerald Parker, (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1972).
Henry Home (Lord Kames)
Lehmann, William C., Henry Home, Lord Kames and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Study in National Character and in the History of Ideas (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1971).
David Hume
Basson, Anthony Henry, David Hume (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958).
Danford, John W., David Hume and the problem of Reason (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1990).
Green, T.H., and Grose, T.H. (eds.), Essays : moral, political and literary (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985).
Greig, J.Y.T., David Hume (London: Cape, 1931).
Mossner, Ernest Campbell, The Life of David Hume (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954).
Sisson, Charles Hubert, David Hume (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1970).
Francis Hutcheson
Hutcheson, Francis, An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design, ed. Peter King (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973). Collected works of Francis Hutcheson, facsimile editions prepared by Bernhard Fabian (Hildesheim: Olms, 1969-1990).
Scott, William Robert, Francis Hutcheson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966).
Charles Keith
Keith, Charles, The har'st rig and the farmer's ha': two poems in the Scottish dialect (Edinburgh: W. Berry, 1794). Monody to the memory of the Rev. Dr. Charles Nisbet (Edinburgh, 1805).
George Lockhart
Szechi. D.. Daniel (ed.), 'Scotland's ruine': Lockhart of Carnwath's memoirs of the Union (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1995).
Henry Mackenzie
Barker, Gerard, Henry Mackenzie (New York: Twayne, 1975).
Drescher, Horst (ed.), Literature and literati: the literary correspondence and notebooks of Henry Mackenzie(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1989).
Garside, P.D., 'Henry Mackenzie, the Scottish novel and Blackwood's Magazine', SLJ 15(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1988), pp. 25-48.
Mackenzie, Henry, The Man of Feeling [1771], ed. Brian Vickers, (London: Oxford University Press, 1967). The Man of the World (Edinburgh, 1773).
Manning, Susan (ed.), Julia de Roubigné (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999).
Thompson, Harold, A Scottish Man of Feeling; Some Account of Henry Mackenzie and The Golden Age of Burns and Scott (London: Oxford University Press, 1931).
James MacPherson
Gaskill, Howard (ed.), Ossian Revisited (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991). (ed.), The poems of Ossian and related works (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996).
MacPherson, James, The Poems of Ossian (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926).
Pittock, Murray, 'Forging North Britain in the Age of MacPherson', Edinburgh Review 93 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), pp. 125-39, [This issue includes other essays on MacPherson and Ossian].
Smart, J.S., James MacPherson: an episode in literature (London: Nutt, 1905).
Stafford, Fiona, The sublime savage: a study of James MacPherson and the poems of Ossian (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988).
David Malloch
Malloch, David, Donaides; John Ker; and A poem in imitation of Donaides, introduction by Irma S. Lustig and a translation by Barrows Dunham (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1978). Thomson, James, Alfred: a masque ... (London, 1747).
John Mayne
Mayne, John, Glasgow: A Poem (London, 1803).The siller gun; a poem, in four cantos (Glocester, 1808).
Archibald Pitcairne
p>Pitcarine, A., The Assembly, or, Scotch Reformation; a comedy (1692; Edinburgh, 1725;Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Studies, 1972).
Thomas Reid
Barker, Stephen F., and Beauchamp, Tom L., Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations (Philadelphia: University City Science Centre, 1976).
Beanblossom, Ronald E., and Lehrer, Keith (eds.), Thomas Reid's Enquiry and Essays (Indianapolis: Hakett Publishing Co., 1983).
Brookes, Derek (ed.), Thomas Reid's An Enquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).
Fraser, Alexander, Thomas Reid (Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1898).
Gallie, Roger D., Thomas Reid and 'the way of ideas' (Dordrecht, London: Kluwer Academic, 1989). Thomas Reid: ethics, aesthetics and the anatomy of the self (Dordrecht, London: Kluwer Academic, 1998).
Lehrer, Keith, Thomas Reid (London: Routledge, 1989).
Rowe, William L., Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality (Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 1991).
Williamson Robertson
Brown, Stewart J. (ed.), William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Alexander Ross
Hewitt, David, 'The Ballad World and Alexander Ross', Literature of the North, eds. D. Hewitt and M. Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 42-54.
Ross, Alexander, Helenore, or the fortunate Shepherdess (Edinburgh, 1866; Dundee, 1912).
Thomas Ruddiman
Ruddiman's significance lies in the important and influential eighteenth century editions he published, which include:
Buchanan, George, Paraphrasis Psalmorum Davidis Poetica &c., eds. John Love and Robert Hunter, (Edinburgh, 1737).
Douglas, Gavin, Aeneid (Edinburgh, 1710).
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, Works (Edinburgh, 1711).
Johnston, Arthur (ed.), Poetarum Scotorum musae sacrae (Edinburgh, 1739).
Malloch, David, A Poem in Imitation of Donaides (Edinburgh, 1725).
Ramsay, Allan. Poems, quarto (Edinburgh, 1721).(ed.), The Tea-Table Miscellany (Edinburgh, 1724). (ed.), The Ever-Green, being a Collection of Scots Poems, wrote by the Ingenious before 1600, 2 vols., (Edinburgh, 1724). The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots Pastoral Comedy (Edinburgh, 1725). Poems, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1728).
See also:
Duncan, Douglas, Thomas Ruddiman: a study in Scottish scholarship of the early eighteenth century (Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1965).
John Skinner
Skinner, John, An ecclesiastical history of Scotland, from the first appearance of Christianity in that kingdom, to the present time; with remarks on the most important occurrences; in a series of letters to a friend ; by the reverend John Skinner, a presbyter of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, at Longside, Aberdeenshire (London: Printed for T. Evans, ...; and R.N. Cheyne, Edinburgh, 1788). Amusements of leisure hours: or poetical pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect ...; to which is prefixed, a sketch of the author's life, with some remarks on Scottish poetry (Edinburgh: Printed by J. Moir and sold by S. Cheyne, 1809). Theological works of the late Rev. John Skinner, Episcopal clergyman in Longside,Aberdeenshire : to which is prefixed a biographical memoir of the author (Aberdeen: Printed by J. Chalmers, 1809). Practical sermons selected from the manuscripts of the Rev. John Skinner: in twovolumes (Salisbury: Brodie and Dowding, 1824).
Adam Smith
Bryce, J.C. (ed.), Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).
Farrer, J.A., Adam Smith (1723-1790) (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881).
Franklin, Burt, Adam Smith: a bibliographical checklist (New York: B. Franklin, 1950).
Ross, Ian S., The Life of Adam Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). See bibliography pp. 434-78.
James Thomson
Carruthers, Gerard, 'James Thomson and Eighteenth Century Scottish Literary Identity', James Thomson: Essays for The Tercentenary, ed. Richard Terry, (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000).
Grant, Douglas, James Thomson: poet of 'The Seasons' (London: Cresset Press, 1951).
Leonard, Tom, 'Mater Tenebrarum: A study of James Thomson (1834-82) 'Bysshe Vanolis'', Edinburgh Review 67/8 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984), pp. 47-60.
Sambrook, James, James Thomson, 1700-1748: a life (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991). (ed.), James Thomson: The Seasons (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981). (ed.), James Thomson: Liberty, The Castle of Indolence and Other Poems (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986).
Scott, Mary Jane W., James Thomson, Anglo-Scot (Athens Ga., London: University of Georgia Press, 1988).
Terry, Richard (ed.), James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000).
Lady Elizabeth (Halkett) Wardlaw
Wardlaw, E., Hardyknute, a fragment of an antient Scots poem (Glasgow: Robert Foulis, 1748).
James Watson
Wood, Harriet Harvey (ed.), James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and serious Scots Poems (Aberdeen: Scottish Text Society and Aberdeen University Press, 1991). 'Burns and Watson's Choice Collection', SSL XXX (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1998), pp.19-30.
William Wilkie
Wilkie, William, The Epigoniad (Edinburgh, 1757).